Suicide rates increase as societies modernize because individuals are held so responsible for their own destinies that failure becomes unbearable.

If you believe those at the top deserve their success, you must also believe those at the bottom deserve their failure, which is an incredibly punitive system.

Depression is often sadness or grief that has gone underground because it runs contrary to our model of what we're allowed to be sad about.

Finding a good therapist is difficult because therapy is more of an art than a science, and you may need to shop around to find one that works for you.

People may self-sabotage success due to an unconscious guilt about having a better life than their parents, especially if a parent was envious.

Most counterproductive adult behaviors have a twisted logic that made sense for survival in early childhood, and we unconsciously repeat them.

A simple two-minute exercise of continuously writing whatever comes to mind can reveal unconscious thoughts and lead to surprising self-discovery.